Display The Date On Your Desktop With Dateline

I had been using Geektool to display the date on my MacBook Pro desktop but Dateline is also a really simple and elegant option…

via the weekly review

It’s Good To Be Home…

Yes I’m still whining about the slow interweb speeds I got while on vacation.

What I got on the road…

What I get at home…

Using BusySync To Share A iCal Calendar

Mr. Rhone reveals how he’s able to share his iCal calender with his wife…

The solution is a product called BusySync. It installs as a pane in System Preferences and seamlessly allows you to do real iCal calendar sharing between multiple Macs – with read write and password control. It is a fantastic solution and works so well you wonder why Apple has not implemented this feature in iCal themselves. It could not have been simpler to set up and make the switch. Here is what I did: With the Backpack calendars subscribed in iCal on one of the Macs, I exported each calendar individually. To me, this is the simplest way to get the data out of Backpack. I then deleted those calendar subscriptions from iCal. Next, I imported the calendars I had exported back into iCal, being careful to make sure it imported each one into its own new calendar. I then installed BusySync and followed the instructions for sharing the calendars. Finally, I went to the other Macs, installed BusySync there, and followed the instructions for subscribing to the calendars.

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Taking It To Another Level

So it’s my last day staying at this 3 star hotel, my bags are packed and I’m getting ready to go downstairs for the complementary breakfast.
Having had stayed at 4 star hotels before I can easily discern the areas that if improved could make this a better hotel.

But this is the real issue, does the management really want this to be a better hotel, maybe their marketing strategy is to be a strong player in the 3 star market. Are they willing to pay the price to upgrade their service and finally do they even care. For some people 3 stars are good enough.

So if you were to look at your life right now how many stars are you rocking? What changes need to be made to take you to the next level? Are you really willing to pay the price to make those changes? And finally do you care enough to stick with it during the awkward transition period until you can see the final results.

A lot of people would like to stay at a 7 star hotel but are unwilling or unable to pay the price.

originally posted on productive life

What Is The Deal With Slow Hotel Internet?

So I get about 12 Mbps at home and am getting 0.35 Mbps on the road in a hotel. This is a fairly decent business dude type hotel, so how is this in anyway acceptable?

A few days ago I was at another hotel and they made me pay 15 bucks for their high speed internet and when I did a speed test I was barely getting dial-up speeds.

This outrage most be put to a stop! Business dudes and info workers must unite and demand our God given right to have free high speed interwebs wherever we go!

originally posted on productive life

Xpad A Simple Text Editor For Mac

Xpad is a really simple text editor for Mac…

According to the developer, “xPad is a single solution replacement for Stickies, NotePad, Scrapbook and TextEdit.” Although the latter claim might be a stretch, given TextEdit’s advanced functionality in Tiger, xPad is indeed quite flexible. The latest version lets you create notes with full RTF support, paragraph formatting (including styles, tab stops, spacing, and lists), and character-level formatting. You can also perform non-contiguous selections—select some text in one part of a document, hold down the Command key, highlight text in another part of the document, and then perform actions on both selections.

via macworld

I use it to store all my serial numbers and to do lists. It’s best feature is it’s simplicity. You can download it here

Ubigity Makes Firefox Smarter?

Haven’t had time to try it out myself but it sounds like a good ideal…sorta

Ubiquity, the experimental Firefox add-on that lets you tell your browser what to do by typing in natural language commands, has just been updated to version 0.5. This preview release adds support for more languages, which is great news for non-English speakers dying to get their hands on this cutting-edge technology. What’s more fascinating about this update, however, is the new way that Ubiquity works to understand your input. Instead of being limited only to what it already knows, it can now reach out and query web services to help it figure out what your input means.

Did our browser just get smarter?

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